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cybernetics

recursion, technically

Field logic describes the recursively antisymmetrical organisation of difference through which systems continually reshape the probability of their own continuity.

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Philosophy

the oldest questions

Life may not need a planet. It may only need matter, persistent gradients of energy, memory, and enough time for (ie self-) organisation to become aware of itself.

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Philosophy

status hierarchy: role-play

Perceived importance is simply the output function of an ongoing game of organisational status hierarchy, social roleplay and meritocratic make-believe.

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cybernetics

towards a transfinite geometry of communication and control

Communication is the continual reorganisation of relational possibility, while control is the selective stabilisation of that organisation across time.

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cybernetics Philosophy

logical orbit: organised persistence as relational invariant

A system persists not by preserving what it is, but by continually reorganising the probabilities of what it can become.

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cybernetics Philosophy

system time

Differential timing is the common language of organised systems.

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cybernetics

towards a continuity theorem

Organised systems persist by reproducing the biases that make their own continuity more probable.

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Philosophy

before continuity

Nothing (and only nothing!) persists by remaining complete. Continuity emerges because every organised system must keep rebuilding the conditions of its own existence.

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cybernetics

continuity

Continuity is not something to assume, but something to explain. Organised systems persist by continually reproducing the biases that make their own continued organisation more probable.

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cybernetics

what holds a society together?

Can the relationships supporting ordinary life continue to reproduce themselves under increasingly rapid change?

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cybernetics

persistence precedes substance

What sustains the dynamical relations from which persistent structures emerge?

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cybernetics

developmental delay

The defining challenge of this century is no longer building more powerful technologies. It is developing human and institutional capacities capable of understanding, governing, and surviving the systems we have already created.